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UMEA, Sweden, Oct. 28 (UPI) — Financial and social hard times during adolescence and young adulthood lead to physiological wear and tear during middle age, U.S. researchers suggest. Dr. per E. Gustafsson of Umea University in Sweden and colleagues analyzed data for 822 participants beginning at age 16 and covering a 27-year period for social [...]

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Public release date: 20-Oct-2011 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: mark edu310-794-2265University of California – Los Angeles Researchers at UCLA have found a possible explanation for why autistic children act and think differently than their peers. for the first time, they’ve shown that the connections between brain regions that are important for language and [...]

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By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News EditorReviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on October 11, 2011 A new animal study may influence parents to keep a closer check on their teens’ sleeping habits. Researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison discovered sleep restriction in adolescent mice prevented the balanced growth of brain synapses. Synapses are the [...]

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Halloween celebrations have changed for students since they were children, from dressing up and trick-or-treating, to exhibiting high-risk behaviors. Courtney Fox, a speech language and hearing sciences major, said she used to dress up as a Disney princess on Halloween and hit the streets trick-or-treating in her suburban neighborhood. but now that she’s in college, [...]

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As “National Anti-bullying Month” comes to a close, we must take all we’ve learned and resolve to maintain better observations and practices with our children ongoing. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg released a video message this morning in regards to the, “It gets better Project.” one main take away from the entire month of awareness, is [...]

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Rachel Dozier: I’m what people like to call a “crier.” It started in 1997 with a little movie I like to call “Titanic.”At age 7, this was the first movie to ever make me cry, and I wasmortified. I mean, my dad was sitting next to me; the humiliationwould never end if he found out. [...]

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THURSDAY, Sept. 29 (HealthDay News) — Brain development doesn’t stop in adolescence, but continues until people are well into their 20s, a new study says. The finding challenges a long-held belief that brain development is completed in the teen years. For their study, the University of Alberta researchers used MRI to scan the brains of [...]

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During her visit to our Lady of Nazareth Primary School in Nairobi’s Mukuru kwa Njenga slum, Kroes met Grace Maingi, a pupil. “Many people think that girls cannot do this work, but as a girl I know how to assemble and disassemble a computer,” said Grace. Most of the children who attend the school come [...]

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Nairobi — the vice president of the European Commission and Commissioner of the Digital Agenda, Neelie Kroes, was in Kenya this week for the Internet Governance Forum. During her tour of the country Kroes saw how digital technology is making a difference in the lives of Kenyans. During her visit to our Lady of Nazareth [...]

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Ask a child if they like sweets and the answer is almost universally a resounding “Yes!” It’s no surprise to most parents that kids love candy, cookies, sweetened drinks, and some kids have even been known to add sugar to a bowl of Frosted Flakes. But don’t blame the kids, say researchers: It’s biology. Scientific [...]

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